April 2021 Nissan-Iyar 5781

FROM THE RABBI’S DESK This message is enriched by the scholarship and wisdom of Rabbis Jacob Cohen, Ellen Gottlieb and Jonathan Sacks.

The Declaration of Independence addresses the inaliena- 7199 Tristan Drive ble rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Easton, MD 21601 Recently, following the pioneering work of Martin 410-822-0553 Seligman, founder of Positive Psychology, there have bnaiisraeleaston.org been hundreds of books published on happiness. Yet there is something more fundamental still to the sense [email protected] of a life well-lived, and that is, meaning. The two, happi- ness and meaning, seem similar. It’s easy to suppose that people who find meaning are happy, and people who are happy have found meaning. But RELIGIOUS SERVICES the two are not the same, nor do they always overlap.

Thursday, April 1, 10:30 am Happiness is largely a matter of satisfying needs and wants. Meaning, by Pesach Yizkor Service contrast, is about a sense of purpose in life, especially by making positive contributions to the lives of others. Happiness is about how you feel in the Friday, April 2, 6:00 p.m. present. Meaning is about how you judge your life as a whole: past, present Torah Portion: Chol HaMo'ed Pesach and future. Exodus 33:12-34:26 Happiness is associated with receiving, meaning with giving. Individuals Haftarah: Ezekiel 37:1-14 who suffer stress, worry or anxiety are not happy, but they may be living lives rich with meaning. Past misfortunes impact present happiness, but Wednesday, April 7, 6:30 pm people often connect such moments with the discovery of meaning. Further- Yom HaShoah Yizkor Service, 6:30 pm more, happiness is not unique to humans. Animals also experience content- ment when their wants and needs are satisfied. But meaning is a distinc- Saturday, April 10, 10:00 a.m. tively human phenomenon. It has to do not with nature but with culture. It Torah Portion: Sh'mini is not about what happens to us, but about how we interpret what happens Leviticus 9:1-11:47 to us. There can be happiness without meaning, and there can be meaning Haftarah: 2 Sam. 6:1-7:17 in the absence of happiness, even in the midst of darkness and pain.

Friday, April 16, 6:00 p.m. In a fascinating article in The Atlantic, ‘There’s More To Life Than Being Torah Portion: Tazria/Metzora Happy’, Emily Smith argues that the pursuit of happiness can result in a Leviticus 12:1-15:33 relatively shallow, self-absorbed, even selfish life. What makes the pursuit Haftarah: 2 Kings 7:3-20 of meaning different is that it is about the search for something larger than the self. Saturday, April 24, 10:00 a.m. No one did more to put the question of meaning into modern discourse than Torah Portion: Acharei Mot/Kedoshim the late Viktor Frankl, who we featured this past Thursday when we showed Leviticus 16:1-20:27 the movie, ‘Viktor and I: The Viktor Frankl Story’. In the three years he Haftarah: Ezekiel 22:1-19 spent in Auschwitz, Frankl survived and helped others to survive by inspiring them to discover a purpose in life even in the midst of hell on Friday, April 30, 6:00 p.m. earth. It was there that he formulated the ideas he later turned into a new Torah Portion: Emor type of psychotherapy based on what he called “man’s search for meaning." Leviticus 21:1-24:23 His book, titled, ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’ written in 1946, has sold more Haftarah: Ezekiel 44:15-31 than ten million copies throughout the world, and ranks as one of the most influential works of the twentieth century. Frankl knew that in the camps those who lost the will to live died. He tells of how he helped two individuals to find a reason to survive. The first, a young woman who had a child waiting for her in another country. The second, had

1 written the first volume of a series of travel books, Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom and there were others yet to write. Both therefore had shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, a reason to live. “Here am I. Send me!” (Isaiah 6:8) Frankl used to say that the way to find meaning was One of the most touching examples is the story of the not to ask what we want from life. Instead we should young Samuel, dedicated by his mother Hannah to ask what does life want from us. He wrote, "We are serve in the sanctuary at Shiloh. Samuel served as an each unique: in our gifts, our abilities, our skills and assistant to Eli the priest. In bed at night he heard a talents, and in the circumstances of our life. For each voice calling his name. He assumed it was Eli. He ran of us, there is a task only we can do. This does not to see what he wanted but Eli told him he had not mean that we are better than others. But if we believe called. This happened a second time and then a third, we are here for a reason, then there is a tikkun, an and by then Eli realized that it was God calling the adjusting, an orienting, a mending, only we can child. He told Samuel that the next time the voice perform, a fragment of light only we can redeem, an called his name, he should reply, ‘Speak, Lord, for act of kindness or courage or generosity or hospitality, Your servant is listening.’ It did not occur to the child even a word of encouragement or a smile, only we can that it might be God summoning him to a mission, but perform, because we are here, in this place, at this it was. Thus began his career as a prophet, judge and time, facing this person at this moment in their lives." anointer of Israel’s first two kings, Saul and David (1 Samuel 3). “Life is a task”, he added, “The religious man differs from the apparently irreligious man only by experienc- You know, just last week, I had a conversation with a ing his existence not simply as a task, but as a friend who said, "We read in the Tanach about all mission.” He or she is aware of being summoned, these encounters between God and people. Direct, called, by a source. “For thousands of years that incontrovertible meetings. Why does God not do that source has been called God.” today...right now...in our time?" Her question was sincere, not asked to be confrontational or disrespect- These ideas and words of Viktor Frankl highlight and ful. She is a person of faith seeking an answer to a underscore the significance of the word that gives this week's parsha, and the third book of the Torah, its profound question. name: Vayikra, “And He called.” The precise meaning When we see a wrong to be righted, a sickness to be of this opening verse is difficult to understand. Literal- healed, a need to be met, and we feel it speaking to ly translated it reads: “And God called to Moses, and us, that is when we come as close as we can in a post- God spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying …” prophetic age to hearing Vayikra, God’s call. And why The first phrase seems to be redundant. If we are told does the word Vayikra appear here, at the beginning that God spoke to Moses, why say in addition, “And He of the third and middle book of the Torah? Because called”? Rashi explains as follows: the book of Vayikra is about sacrifices, and a vocation is about sacrifices. We are willing to make sacrific- "And He called to Moses:" Every time God communi- es when we feel they are part of the task we are cated with Moses, whether signaled by the expression: called on to do. “And He spoke," or “and He said," or “and He commanded," it was always preceded by God calling From the perspective of eternity we may sometimes Moses by name. “Calling” is an expression of endear- be overwhelmed by a sense of our own insignificance. ment. It is the expression employed by the ministering We are no more than a wave in the ocean, a grain of angels, as it says, “And one called to the sand on the seashore, a speck of dust on the surface other…” (Isaiah. 6:3). of infinity. Yet we are here because God wanted us to be, because there is a task divinely directed that we Thus, explains Rashi, Vayikra means to be called to a are to perform. The search for meaning is the quest task in love. This is the source of one of the key ideas of Western thought, namely the concept of a vocation for this task. or a calling, that is, the choice of a career or way of Each of us is unique. Even genetically identical twins life not just because you want to do it, or because it are different. There are things only we can do, we who offers certain benefits, but because you feel are what we are, in this time, this place and these summoned to it. You feel this is your mission in life. circumstances. For each of us God has a task: work to Your mission provides meaning and this is what you perform, a kindness to show, a gift to give, love to were placed on earth to do. share, loneliness to ease, pain to heal, or broken lives to help mend. Discerning that task, hearing Vayikra, There are many such calls in Tanach. There was the God’s call, is one of the great spiritual challenges for call Abraham heard to leave his land and family. There each of us. was the call to Moses at the burning bush (Ex. 3:4). There was the one experienced by Isaiah when he saw How do we know what it is? Where what we want to in a mystical vision God enthroned and surrounded by do meets what needs to be done, that is where God angels: wants us to be.

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Friends:

I hope that you’re having a good Passover. As I said in my weekly letter—NEXT YEAR IN EASTON!!!!!

A reminder to use Amazon Smile when you are ordering from Amazon. It’s a program that gives its customers the opportunity to link their personal Amazon account with a non-profit to earn funds for that organization. When you shop at Amazon Smile, 0.5% of your purchases are donated to that organization at zero cost to you. We have already received some money from that program. To start earning funds for Temple B'nai Israel, click this link: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/52-1164017

I am awed at the ENGAGE! programs that have been set up by the Lifelong Learning Committee. The one on Sunday, April 25, 2021 from 4:00-5:00 p.m., Growing Our River-friendly Congregation, promises to be motivational.

The board voted to propose a by-laws change. Watch for announcements about that. We will be voting before the Annual Congregational Meeting.

Please have a safe month. The end of this craziness is in sight, but we still have to be careful.

Shalom, Elaine

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE Dear Temple B’nai Israel Members,

April is a time for looking to the future, of growth and renewal, with daffodils and tulips blooming and birds building their nests for new life to soon be born. April is also a month for remembering. On April 1, our “We Remember” banner will be put up on the side of our building to honor those that we lost and to ensure that we never forget the atrocities of the Holocaust. April 8 is Yom HaShoah, and we will live stream to Facebook a Yom HaShoah Yizkor service on Wednesday, April 7 at 6:30 PM. Please join us.

During this time of renewal, where our area has seen increases in vaccinations and low positivity of COVID rates, the subject of reopening of businesses and synagogues is on many minds. I’m a member of a tri-state Executive Directors association that meets periodically and communicates regularly via email regarding operational issues of synagogues. As you can imagine, the reopening of our synagogues has been a major topic of discussion.

Temple B’nai Israel’s Reopening Work Group met at the end of March to continue the evaluation of safe opening proce- dures and to look at a timeline for opening the Temple for services and events. Led by Ben Schlesinger, the group includes Rabbi Hyman, Elaine Friedman, Marcia Shapiro, Meryle Dunlap, Nancy Cummings and myself.

It was decided that in early May we will begin Phase I of our reopening plan. Phase I will open Shabbat services up to 26 individuals at the Temple. More details will be forthcoming later this month in the Weekly Announcements and via email. Please note, due to CDC, Maryland and/or Talbot County Health Department recommendations, this new policy could be changed at any time.

We look forward to welcoming you again to your Temple!

Shalom,

Ruth and Don Saff extend their best wishes for a Happy Pesach to the Congregation

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Holidays of the Month

Yom HaShoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, occurs on the 27th of Nissan (April 8th this year). Shoah, which means “catastrophe” or “utter destruction” in Hebrew, refers to the atrocities that were commit- ted against the Jewish people during World War II. This is a memorial day for those who died in the Shoah. The Shoah is also known as the Holocaust, from a Greek word meaning "sacrifice by fire." Yom HaShoah reminds us of the horrors that Jews and other persecuted groups faced. It was a systematic effort to wipe out an entire population from the face of the earth.

Many commemorate Yom HaShoah by lighting yellow candles to keep alive the memories of the victims. Yom HaShoah also reminds us to reflect on the acts of resistance that took place throughout the war. For this reason, an early proposal favored by many survivors and Zionists called for the holiday to be commemorated on the 14th of Nissan, the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, perhaps the most well-known of the many revolts against Nazi aggression. The recommendation was dismissed because of the day’s proximity to Pesach, but the spirit was maintained when the Knesset approved a plan calling for Yom HaShoah to be observed within the timeline of the actual uprising just two weeks later. The 27th of Nissan was ultimately chosen, placing the commemoration between Passover and Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day.

Lag B’Omer On the second day of Passover, in the days of the Temple, an omer of barley was cut down and brought to the Temple as an offering (an omer was an ancient Hebrew measure of grain, amounting to about 2.1 quarts). According to the Torah (Lev. 23:15), we are obligated to count the days from Passover to Shavuot, a period known as the Counting of the Omer.

Every night, from the second night of Passover to the night before Shavuot, we recite a blessing and state the count of the Omer in both weeks and days. So on the 16th day, you would say "Today is sixteen days, which is two weeks and two days of the Omer." The counting is intended to remind us of the link between Passover, which commemorates the Exodus, and Shavuot, which commemorates the giving of the Torah. It reminds us that the redemption from slavery was not complete until we received the Torah.

This period is a time of partial mourning, during which weddings, parties, and dinners with dancing are not conducted, in memory of a plague during the lifetime of Rabbi Akiba. The 33rd day of the Omer (the 18th of Iyar) is a minor holiday commemorating a break in the plague. The holiday is known as Lag B'Omer. The word "Lag" is the Hebrew number 33.

In modern Israel, Lag B'Omer has been reinterpreted to commemorate the Bar Kochba revolt against the Romans, leading to customs that include having large dinner celebrations and lighting bonfires. In Sephardic tradition, Lag B'Omer is also the hillula, or anniversary of death, of the great sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. In celebration of his life, every year thousands of Jews ascend Mount Meron outside the city of Safed to "eat, drink, and be merry."

Lag B’Omer is typically celebrated with barbecues and picnics attended by family, friends and community members. There are not many traditional Lag B’Omer foods, but in Israel, typical foods eaten on the holiday include kebabs (roasted skewered meat or vegetables), pitas, eggplant salad, potato salad, tahini, etc. Otherwise, any foods that would go well at a picnic or bonfire are great options for Lag B’Omer.

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WEEKLY HAPPENINGS

Torah Classes — Wednesdays Noon to 1:00 p.m. Join Temple friends and community members as Rabbi Hyman leads us through the study of Torah each Wednesday, from noon to 1:00 p.m. Classes are held via Zoom and require a one-time registration. Click here to register: https://bit.ly/2J5UnAt Online Canasta is a GO! We now have a group of Canasta players that are meeting each Monday 1:00-4:00 PM online through Canasta Junction. Contact Lori Ramsey at 919-428-0973. Online Mahjongg - Need Players! Are you a Mahjongg player that is missing your weekly game? Would you like to meet some Temple members that share your love for the game? Contact Paula Gervis at 443-385-0422.

UP-COMING EVENTS A BIG SPRING EVENT: The Emergence of the 17-year Cicadas

From The Washington Post They’ve been buried — alive — for 17 years. And now, Brood X, one of the world’s largest swarms of giant fly-like bugs called cicadas, is ready to rise. When the ground warms to 64 degrees, they’ll stop gnawing on tree roots and start scratching toward the surface by the hundreds of billions.

Georgia and other Southern states will probably be where they first emerge around the end of March, experts say. But residents of the DC, Maryland and Virginia area are likely to host more of these animals than any of the other states that share the experience. Mike Raupp, a University of Maryland entomologist says, “We are at the epicenter of an event that happens nowhere else on the planet … It’s going to be pretty remarkable, come the latter half of May. The densities of these things is going be phenomenal, about 1.5 million per acre. It blows your mind.” And it’s going to be loud. Raupp says, “The males will start mating songs that reach up to 100 decibels. That’s the sound of a chain-saw, a lawn mower, a jet overhead.”

Food on Fire: Kebabs, with Hummus & Israeli Salad Sunday, April 18 at 4:30 PM via Zoom Lag B’Omer has been celebrated with different rituals over time representing various events in Jewish history. Today, we traditionally make bonfires and cook food over fire, while children play with mock bows and arrows. Rabbi Hyman is once again our host and will describe the history of the different traditions that have developed over time to celebrate Lag B’Omer and what they represent to us as Jewish people. The Rabbi will then welcome and introduce our guest chefs, Yaakov and Yonina Elfassi. They are the daughter and son-in-law of Alan & Arna Mickelson, and will teach us how to make one of their favorite Israeli meals: beef kebabs, homemade hummus and Israeli Salad. Join us via Zoom by registering here: https://bit.ly/3siO2n0

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Engage!

Lifelong Learning

Growing Our River-Friendly Congregation An Action-Oriented Environmental Program for All Ages Sunday April 25, 2021 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. via Zoom

We are partnering with science-based nonprofit ShoreRivers to learn about the environmentally- friendly efforts Temple B’nai Israel has already taken and how we can apply them to our home properties. Matt Pluta, ShoreRivers Director of Riverkeeper Programs, will use a drone flyover of our Temple grounds to show how our innovative water management practices and native plantings work to help protect and improve the health of our rivers and the Chesapeake Bay.

Every Drop of Water from Our Properties is Carried to Our Rivers Even if you are not on the waterfront, every drop of water from your property is carried to our rivers. We are learning that stitching together small habitats into conservation corridors may make the essential difference we need for all species, including our own, to thrive. As stewards of a shared earth, there is real hope in our yard of any size.

Improve That Soggy Lawn Darran White Tilghman, ShoreRivers Director of Community Engagement, will explain ways for us to enjoy beautiful native plantings, create bird and pollinator habitats, improve soggy lawns and basements, and help ShoreRivers achieve its vision of healthy waterways across Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Register for the Zoom event: https://bit.ly/3pZw3jG

Book Club - Via Zoom MEMBERS ONLY Join your Temple friends for a monthly Virtual Book Club via Zoom. For details, contact Elaine at [email protected]. April 26, 5:30 PM Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

A charming, poignant novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.

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Engage!

Lifelong Learning

KREPLACH & DIM SUM YES, THERE ARE JEWS IN CHINA! Sunday, May 2, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. via Zoom Join us for a fascinating evening with the perfect blend of music, education and entertainment with Cantor Robyn Helzner, previously of the United Jewish Congregation of Hong Kong and the officiant at the first Bar Mitzvah ever held in Beijing, China. Robyn has also worked with Congrega- tions in Shanghai and Tokyo. Currently, she is a Cantorial Soloist at Temple Sinai and at the historical Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington D.C. “Helzner’s eclectic folk-music journey across the Jewish world offers a powerful message of hope and joy.” —Hadassah Magazine

To register for the Zoom: https://bit.ly/3tPLa1g

You Don’t Need to be Van Gogh to Create Art! TBI Invited to Participate in a Public Art Installation May 5, 1:00 - 5:00 PM The Oxford Community Center (OCC), is inviting up to 10 members of a select few community organizations to join them in participating in a community public art installation by painting tiles. The tiles will then be placed on two benches or tree totems that will be installed at the center. We are pleased to announce that Temple B’nai Israel was selected as one of the community organizations to participate in this new public art venture.

Liza Ledford, Executive Director of the OCC, said that the intent is “to create a welcoming beacon at the Oxford Community Center, built together by people of all ages, from Oxford and neighboring communities. Our intent is to illuminate and celebrate "Our diverse world". The art installation will serve as an inviting, welcoming area for gathering or peaceful contemplation for all who visit the space.” Up to 10 TBI members will each have their own 6’ table and paint supplies (including stencils for those of you who are thinking that you can’t create!) inside the high-ceilinged OCC. Masks and social distancing are mandatory. Each session will be guided by an OCC instructor. Call a Temple friend and make plans to join us! Register by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3lBJvK0

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Thursday Movie Matinee

Please join us for the Thursday Movie Matinees at 4:00 p.m. each week. In programming our films, we try to feature a documentary every other week. MEMBERS ONLY

April 1 Mr. Kaplan 1 h 38 min 2015 13+ Trailer: https://amzn.to/3lK2F05

After fleeing Europe for Uruguay during WWII, Jacob Kaplan built a quiet life. Now 76, he begins to question his worth. After learning of a mysterious German prowling the shores of a nearby beach, he becomes convinced that he's found a Nazi in hiding and plans to expose him. Expertly distilling a potent mixture of emotional depth and deadpan comedy, Mr. Kaplan is a vivacious meditation on family, aging, and the drive for significance.

April 8 (Holocaust Remembrance Day-Yom HaShoah) Big Sonia Documentary 1 h 33 min 2017 13+ https://bigsonia.com/trailer-media/ Standing tall at 4’8″, Sonia is one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Kansas City and one of the only survivors there who speaks publicly about her wartime experience. Sonia’s enormous personality and fragile frame mask the horrors she endured. At 15 she watched her mother disappear behind gas chamber doors. Sonia is the ultimate survivor, a bridge between cultures and generations.

April 15 Abe 1 h 25 min 2020 https://amzn.to/37vqumG

Twelve-year-old Abe has a complicated family: part Israeli, part Palestinian, and constantly fighting. But when he meets chef Chico and his fusion cuisine, he's inspired to unite his family through food. Abe wants to cook a meal that will bring everyone to the table, but he's about to learn that the kitchen can't heal some divides.

April 22 306 Hollywood Documentary 1 h 34 min 2018 13+ Trailer: https://amzn.to/3dpWRa5 When siblings Elan and Jonathan Bogarín undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house, they embark on a magical-realist journey in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind. 306 Hollywood transforms the dusty fragments of an unassuming life into an epic metaphor for the nature of memory, time, and history.

April 29 Let Yourself Go 1 h 42 min 2018 13+ Trailer: https://amzn.to/2PhWG6S Italian (with English subtitles)

Elia (Toni Servillo, "The Great Beauty") is a Jewish psychoanalyst from a purely Freudian school of thought. Due to his austere and detached manner, he is reputed for immediately generating awe in his patients. Elia lives alone in a flat on the same floor as his ex- wife Giovanna, with whom he is still secretly in love. After a minor illness, his doctor prescribes an iron-rich diet and physical activity to lose a few extra kilos. That is how he chances upon Claudia, a personal trainer with the cult of physique but clearly not of mind...

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Tidbits of Jewish History William James Sidis (1898-1944)

William James Sidis, understood it, the lesson was a revelation. a child prodigy with However, as an adult Sidis went into hiding from exceptional mathemati- public scrutiny, moving from city to city, job to job. cal abilities, was born He wrote a number of books, including a 1,200-page to Jewish Ukrainian history of the United States. His books were never immigrants in 1898. widely published, and he used at least eight pseudo- His parents - Boris, a nyms. famous psychologist, and Sarah, a doctor - believed in nurturing a preco- He briefly courted controversy when arrested at a cious and fearless love of knowledge. William could Boston May Day Socialist March in 1919. He was read the New York Times at 18 months, reportedly sentenced to 18 months in prison for rioting and taught himself eight languages by age eight, and assaulting a police officer, but he had actually done invented another, which he called Vendergood. He neither. After his brush with the law, he took on a also wrote poetry, a novel, and even a constitution for series of menial jobs, such as low-level accounting a potential utopia. work, but whenever his colleagues learned who he was, he would promptly quit. Sidis entered grammar school at age six, but in less than a year had advanced into high school curricu- Sidis lived out of the limelight until 1937, when the lum. He was accepted to Harvard at age 9, but the New Yorker magazine sent a reporter to gather school wanted him to wait until he was 11. Five years information for an article on what had happened to later, he graduated cum laude. the boy wonder. He thought the article's description of him was humiliating and "made him sound crazy." His Harvard days, however, were not happy. His He sued the New Yorker, arguing that the magazine biographer, Amy Wallace says, "He had been made a had libeled him, and he won. laughing stock at Harvard, and was teased and chased. All he wanted was to be away from academia Much speculation has been made about William Sidis’ and be a regular working man." IQ. There are no records of his IQ testing, so historians are forced to estimate. Albert Einstein's is While still a student in 1910, he lectured the Harvard estimated to be 160, Leonardo da Vinci 180, and Mathematical Club on the incredibly complex topic of Isaac Newton 190. William James Sidis had an four-dimensional bodies. The lecture was nearly estimated IQ of 250 to 300. incomprehensible for most people, but for those who

So, now that the pandemic appears to be on the downturn, we thought we’d ask about some of your COVID experiences over the last year. Projects completed? Your favorite book read? A Netflix or Amazon movie/series you particularly liked (or hated)? Your experience and/or frustration getting or not getting your COVID shots? How about a COVID joke or picture? For next month’s Shofar, send your experiences to the editors at [email protected]. For a start, here’s Jeff Barron smiling , or is he frowning?, following his COVID shot.

A rabbi was asked what to feed a person suffering from the coronavirus. “Matzah, of course!” said the rabbi. “Well, does it help?” “No,” said the rabbi, “but it slides easily under the door”.

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TEMPLE B’NAI ISRAEL Board of Directors and Officers: Board Members: Rabbi - Peter E. Hyman President - Elaine Friedman Bruce Bernard Belinda Frankel Executive Director- Lori Ramsey 1st Vice President - Barry Koh Carol Brown Lesley Israel Office Manager - Nancy Cummings 2nd Vice President - Ben Schlesinger Emily Callahan Liz LaCorte Shofar Editors: Secretary - Cheryl Kramer Meryle Dunlap Stephen Sand Stephen & Jean Sand Treasurer - Sandra Seitz Jody Florkewicz Barbara Portnoy Spector Arna Meyer Mickelson (IPP)

Tree of Life Have you admired our beautiful “Tree of Life” in our lobby, and wondered how you could honor the life events of your loved ones? Please view our recently produced Tree of Life video featuring Rabbi Hyman and member Anne Rosen, by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3pleE5o Purchasing a leaf is a meaningful opportunity to memorialize and honor special milestones and people in your life, while also raising needed funds for our synagogue. Please consider honoring a teacher or special mentor, acknowledging the birth of a new baby, celebrating a birthday, wedding, anniversary, or bar/bat mitzvah of family members. Leaves are available for purchase for $500 each. For more information on the ordering and payment process, please contact Nancy Cummings at the Temple office at 410-822-0553.

Is there a Simcha you would like to share? (an anniversary, new baby, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah … ) Send your submission to the Temple office or email the editors at [email protected].

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April 2021

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 Pesach Yizkor 4:36 pm Service via Zoom candle lighting 10:30-11:30 am Shabbat Service Live Streamed via Facebook 6:00-7:00 pm

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Advancement Communication 4:43 pm Shabbat Service Committee Meeting via candle lighting Live Streamed Meeting via Zoom via Facebook Zoom 10:00-11:00 am 10:00-11:00 am 10:00-11:00

Torah class via Zoom 12:00-1:00 pm

Yom HaShoah Yizkor service via Facebook 6:30-7:30 pm

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Religious school Executive NO Torah class 4:50 pm Havdalah via via Zoom Committee candle lighting Zoom 10:30 am-12 pm Meeting via 6:00-7:00 pm Zoom Shabbat Service 10:00-11:00 Live Streamed via Facebook

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Board Meeting Torah class Re-opening 4:58 pm Shabbat Service 10:00 am via Zoom Committee candle lighting Live Streamed Via Zoom 12:00-1:00 pm Meeting via via Facebook Zoom 10:00-11:00 am Jewish Kitchen 10:30-11:30 am Making Kebabs w. Hummus & Israeli Salad 4:30 pm via Zoom

25 26 27 28 29 30 Lifelong Learning Lifelong Learn- Torah class 5:06 pm ENGAGE! ing Committee via Zoom candle lighting Riverkeepers meeting via 12:00-1:00 pm 4:00-5:00 pm Zoom Lag B’Omer 10:30-noon Shabbat Service via Facebook Book Club via 6:00-7:00 pm Zoom 5:30-6:30 pm

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